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James Jesus Angleton was an enigma. With his horn-rimmed glasses, homburg hats and foppish manners, he looked more like a Cambridge don than an American , spy hunter. Yet the Idaho-born Yale graduate, who joined the Central Intelligence Agency after a wartime stint in the Office of Strategic Services, had a flair for global intrigue and office politics that propelled him into the CIA's upper echelons. During his 20-year tenure as head of counterintelligence at the height of the cold war, Angleton hamstrung the agency with a paranoiac mole hunt that led him to ignore crucial leads...
...Webster's four-year stint at the helm of America's vast intelligence network. He had ably carried out the mandate given to him at the outset: to restore the CIA's image and accountability, both of which had been badly damaged by his predecessor, the devious and headstrong William Casey. "Webster improved relations with Congress. Internally, he established stricter rules," says David Whipple, a former senior CIA official who now heads the Association of Former Intelligence Officers. "He did his job very well...
Harry has become enamored of the American way of life, sporting a bumper sticker on his Ford Bronco II that reads HAVE A NICE DAY in Japanese, and dreaming of staying on in Montana beyond his two-year stint. While they have become proficient at roping calves, building fences, pitching hay and loading oats, both men say the best part of their experience has been the horseback riding. "Out on the plains, galloping along, I feel like a real cowboy," says Kaz. "But you sure as hell don't look like one!" jokes Chaffin as the room resounds with laughter...
...relative newcomers. "She can go in and be effective on day one," says campaign manager John Dellvolpe. Melconian is banking on her nine and one-half years on Capitol Hill as a legislative assistant for former U.S. House Speaker Thomas P. O'Neill Jr. and her 9-year stint as state senator...
...earlier days, administrators might have answered that there was, in fact, no place for Lee. But incoming Chair Gates and outgoing Chair Barbara Johnson have made creative use of Harvard's ability to appoint visiting lecturers. The result: a guest stint by Lee that will give the moribund department a dynamic lift and could well inspire other scholars to check out Harvard's Afro-Am--and maybe even to accept tenure here...